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The case of Thomas Boukamp — convicted at 22 and sentenced to life — is forcing federal courts to confront whether the Sentencing Guidelines can account for neurodevelopmental conditions that impair social judgment without excusing criminal conduct.

The Oracle of Omaha has long advocated for taxing inherited wealth, but his own fortune is headed to family foundations, not the federal Treasury. The numbers tell a different story than the rhetoric.

The Amazon founder, worth $257 billion, says stress vanishes the moment you take the first step — a lesson forged in a rented garage and 60 fundraising meetings.

Hannah Williams job-hopped to $90,000 by age 23, then walked away from corporate life to build Salary Transparent Street — a media brand with 2.5 million followers dedicated to breaking pay secrecy.

Trump ally and conservative commentator Laura Loomer traveled to Ukraine, met with President Zelenskyy, and publicly reversed years of pro-Moscow rhetoric — warning the American right that Russian disinformation is a real and present danger.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission proposes replacing the 'as low as reasonably achievable' standard with a graded approach tied to dose thresholds — a shift that could clear the regulatory runway for smaller, next-generation reactors.

The administration's new forced-labor tariffs cover 99% of U.S. imports and, unlike prior levies, carry no expiration date — a structural shift in how Washington prices trade.

A new NBER study tracks five decades of marriage data and finds that as college-educated women ran out of degree-holding partners, they moved down-market — but only for the highest earners, leaving less-stable men further behind.

A two-decade classroom veteran at Amherst College documents a measurable collapse in reading stamina, backed by survey data showing high school teachers assigned fewer than three full books a year in 2024-2025. The pipeline feeding American higher education is broken.

A 1,000-mile transmission buildout in Georgia is displacing nearly 30 homeowners — with roughly 80 percent of the new power expected to flow straight to data centers.

The Trump administration has taken positions in 30 companies worth billions of taxpayer dollars, yet no consolidated ledger exists and the Intel stake alone — initially valued at $8.9 billion and now worth $42 billion — appears in no budget document.

Legal sports betting has grown from $6.6 billion in 2018 to a market that dwarfs every major U.S. entertainment industry, and economists warn the real damage is concentrated in a small, identifiable cohort of heavy losers.

The U.S. president called it 'a beautiful tribute' after the Spanish striker wore a red 'Make Spain Great Again' cap during Madrid victory celebrations.

New city figures show 45,194 people living homeless in Los Angeles, with unsheltered numbers jumping 7.9%, as First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli argues 'harm reduction' spending is fueling the crisis rather than solving it.

Brendan Bechtel warns the U.S. needs 140,000 more electricians, welders, and pipefitters by 2030 just to house the AI revolution — and that workforce doesn't exist yet.

The Sacramento City Council voted to transfer nearly $800,000 in Department of Homeland Security grant money to a regional intelligence hub, igniting a debate over whether DMV records and traffic-camera data could reach federal immigration enforcement.

A Chinese-made fabric dresser sold by a third-party seller on Walmart.com for roughly $80 fails mandatory tip-over stability standards — and no injuries have yet been reported, but regulators aren't waiting.

A University of Minnesota program backed by Gov. Tim Walz will place gender-ideology dolls in schools and clinics this fall — funded in part through a public university innovation grant.

Frank Bisignano, who now oversees both the IRS and Social Security Administration, faces decade-old allegations of corporate spying and jet misuse at JPMorgan — allegations the bank investigated and dismissed, and which Bisignano denies through counsel.

Secretary Sean Duffy says 'Trump Station sounds good' and the White House press secretary asked 'Why not?' — but no formal legislation has been introduced to rename the busiest rail terminal in the Western Hemisphere.

Administrative pressure, daily fines of $998, and a self-deportation app are moving millions out without mass raids — and the data backs it up.

The state party replaced disgraced nominee Graham Platner after a sexual-assault allegation ended his campaign — handing a five-term Republican incumbent a significant head start.

An executive order directs Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to post notices on National Park Service walkways leading to the National Museum of American History, pointing visitors to what the White House calls 'accurate' resources.

A First Circuit panel refused to lift a Boston judge's ruling that declared key sections of the executive order unconstitutional, leaving the administration scrambling toward the Supreme Court with November's congressional elections weeks away.

After the Supreme Court struck down his earlier levies, President Trump invoked obscure 1930s law, threatened 100% duties on generic drugs, and hit Brazil and Canada with new tariffs — signaling the trade campaign is structural, not tactical.

The president landed pointed jabs at California's two leading Democrats — and the state's billionaire tax, wildfires and homeless policies — before a room he called 'the largest group of Trump derangement syndrome people ever put together.'

A Farmington school board member backing Rep. Haley Stevens told opponent Abdul El-Sayed to stop speaking Arabic and playing Arabic music at campaign events — igniting a identity-politics firestorm inside the Democratic Party.

A US trade court lawsuit filed Friday argues the sweeping new levies lack the country-specific findings required by Section 301 — the third legal theory the administration has tested in its tariff campaign.

Argentina's president traveled to Brazil to endorse Flávio Bolsonaro's presidential campaign and delivered a 25-minute broadside that drew formal rebukes from the Workers' Party and the Supreme Federal Tribunal.

The Colombian club opened the second half of 2026 with a 1-0 loss to Llaneros and cannot register a single new player — the direct consequence of unpaid salaries to current and former footballers.

A 38-year-old man with five prior prison entries drove the wrong way through two municipalities before police intercepted him — and found three types of narcotics in his vehicle.

The City of Buenos Aires hosts a responsible-adoption fair on July 25, bringing together up to 15 civil-society organizations and a free veterinary mobile unit at Plaza del Ángel Gris.

Argentina's president was awarded the Ordem do Ipiranga — Grand Cross grade — by Governor Tarcísio de Freitas at the Palácio dos Bandeirantes, a ceremony that doubled as a political signal for the region's free-market right.

The world's largest ship registry clears a key regulatory hurdle in Europe and North America while locking in a bilateral shipping agreement with Beijing — a double win for Mulino's maritime agenda.

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won disclosed the request publicly on July 25, 2026, calling it remarkable for an AI developer to harbor its own chip ambitions.

Beijing's market watchdog confiscated $245 million in profits and levied a $520 million penalty after finding the travel giant forced hotels off rival platforms — the latest salvo in China's ongoing campaign to discipline its own tech sector.

Two Saudi petroleum vessels were attacked in the Red Sea as Houthi rebels declare 'economic war' on Riyadh's oil exports — and Washington is putting Tehran on notice.

Diplomats are negotiating a framework that would have Iran manage vessel transit through the Strait of Hormuz with fewer restrictions on ships, as Washington halts nearly two weeks of airstrikes to test Tehran's willingness to deal.

The U.S. military broke a nearly two-week airstrike streak after Trump declined to authorize new strikes, with Omani diplomats in Tehran pursuing a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Energy markets are already paying the price.

A large-scale military operation follows a Friday clash that left four Palestinian civilians and two Israeli soldiers dead; settler attacks continued Saturday across multiple towns.

Israeli forces swept more than 300 sites across the West Bank overnight, arresting suspected Hamas affiliates and arms traffickers, as separate airstrikes in Gaza left at least four Palestinians dead.

The president halted new military action Friday while keeping every option on the table; Houthi missiles now target Saudi Aramco facilities, threatening a key global shipping corridor.

A senior Iranian official threatened to sustain strikes against American targets across the Middle East while President Trump keeps diplomatic channels open and publicly considers a large-scale military response.

A fragile pause in strikes opens a narrow diplomatic window — but the interim deal's 60-day clock is running, Iran's nuclear program remains unresolved, and gasoline prices are rising again.

Spanish sports media says the Chilean coach 'still has work ahead' before Betis is ready for its second-ever Champions League campaign in 2026/27.

The Japanese delegation landed in Santiago on July 25, kicking off preparations for a 24-nation tournament set for August 6–16, 2026 across three Chilean cities.

The Spanish second-division club and homegrown forward Dani Queipo have mutually terminated a contract that ran through June 2027, freeing the 23-year-old to negotiate with any club.

The Mubadala DC Open kicks off the North American hard-court swing Monday, with Spain's Rafael Jódar facing France's Arthur Fils in a rematch of their Barcelona semifinal clash.

A late-game goal by Fernanda Rodríguez sealed the result after Chile dominated possession across all four quarters. The squad now turns its attention to Ireland.

Video of the assault at a Fortaleza gymnasium shocked Brazil and triggered disciplinary action under the country's Sports Justice Code, including the expulsion of the offending player's club from the municipal championship.

When sellers choose a lottery over a price hike, they are revealing a hidden market, and that choice has real consequences for how capital and goods get allocated.

Peter Cancro skipped gym class, skipped college, and bet everything on a sandwich shop. Half a century later, the market is about to hand him the bill — paid in full.

Dave Kline, who spent nearly a decade in senior recruitment roles at Ray Dalio's hedge fund, says candidates who never walked away from a safe job never get hired — because they've never bet on themselves.

FanDuel's new prediction-market app lets users trade contracts on the Heisman race, with Arch Manning, CJ Carr, Darian Mensah, and Trinidad Chambliss among the top names in the field.

The U.S. prediction market startup is offering new users a $20 bonus on a $10 trade, positioning itself as a regulated alternative to traditional sportsbooks ahead of a marquee Mets-Dodgers matchup.

The world's largest derivatives exchange bets that retail demand and hot IPOs like SpaceX will finally make single-stock futures work in America — 24 years after they failed the first time.

Investors are done writing blank checks for AI infrastructure: negative free cash flow at Alphabet spooked markets, and Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Apple are next in line to face the reckoning.

Ned Davis Research's basket of Trump-aligned funds has surrendered most of its early-year gains, with energy prices, inflation expectations and policy whiplash driving investors to the exits.

Chairman Kevin Warsh is steering the FOMC into its most contested policy debate yet, with Wall Street pricing 34.2% odds of a quarter-point hike and at least two hawkish dissents expected.

A July 26, 2026 Fortune commentary uses George Martin's role with the Beatles to argue that the real AI leadership challenge is not technology adoption but the quality of questions executives choose to ask.

Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index puts hard numbers on a quiet crisis: the workers who can think independently of AI are rare, and the institutions training the next generation may be making the problem worse.

A new EPRI working paper finds data centers actually lowered retail electricity prices through 2024, but a demand shortfall in the AI buildout could reverse every dollar of that gain.

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri is pulling pickup-artist and prank content shot with Ray-Ban Meta glasses after accounts with millions of followers used the wearables to secretly film strangers — raising hard questions about where platform responsibility ends and product liability begins.

A new Nature Communications study finds that spontaneous fluctuations in brain-state alertness open short plasticity windows — and that stimulating a single neuron during those moments can create entirely new memory cells.

Safety experts say GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased system that hacked Hugging Face appear to meet OpenAI's own highest danger threshold, which was supposed to trigger a development halt. OpenAI has not confirmed or denied it.

The Nvidia CEO told Axios the AI buildout is 'industrially driven,' not seasonal — and that the semiconductor industry must grow five to ten times larger over the next decade. Markets have heard this argument before.

Camila Deniz, sister of former Gran Hermano contestant Thiago Medina, fulfilled a lifelong dream when she flew to Mar del Plata with her women's soccer team.

Taiwan-based Myanmar director Midi Z reveals his U.S.-Taiwan co-production draws on 'Heart of Darkness' through an original story rooted in a real Southeast Asian criminal case.

DiMartino, Konietzko and director Lauren Montgomery open up about aging up Team Avatar, a villain voiced by Dave Bautista, and the action sequences that never made the final film.